Israel may be about to export its workhorse Merkava tank for the first time. Reports say Israel is in talks to sell the tank to a European and a Middle Eastern country. If exported widely, the tank ...

Merkava MK IV Down: The IDF Has Lost One of Its Most Advanced Tanks: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has lost one of its Merkava Mk IV Barak main battle... Israel fields one of the most capable ...

Key Points and Summary - Israel’s Merkava IV Barak carries the IDF’s crew-survivability DNA forward: a front-mounted engine, modular armor, Trophy active protection, and a 120mm gun atop 1,500 hp of ...

Elbit Systems secured a $210m MOD contract to upgrade Merkava tanks with renewed electronics, AI-enhanced sights, spare parts, and long-term support. Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s premier defense ...

Al-Qassam Brigades have reportedly destroyed one of Israel's most advanced and expensive tanks — the Merkava-4, worth $10 million — in a major battlefield blow. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), known ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: If the Merkava IV offers any lessons to the U.S. military, it should be regarding the importance of fielding effective countermeasures against more advanced anti-tank ...

Israel has lost nearly two dozen tanks during fighting with Hamas since October 7. Those losses have come despite the sophistication of Israeli tanks and Israel's experience using them. The fighting ...

January 31, 2023: Israel has developed another, the fifth, version of its Merkava tank. The Merkava 5 was quietly developed, built, tested and deployed in small numbers during late 2022. This was ...

April 4, 2021: Israel is the smallest nation in the world to design and build its own tanks. This was the result of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, which took Israel by surprise and inflicted heavy losses ...

An Israeli Merkava IV tank fitted with a metal cage canopy south of Ashkelon on 15 October. (AFP via Getty Images/Gil Cohen-Magen) Some of the Merkava IV tanks that have been deployed to the border ...

Merkava Mk 4m with the Trophy APS during Operation Protective Edge in 2014. On Sunday afternoon, an IDF Merkava tank overturned while loading on to a carrier at an IDF base in the Jordan Valley. The ...